First: Thank you for sharing your experience! But I have one question, I'd be glad to get some clarification. > I'm pretty sure once you're L4 or so you can pr

First: Thank you for sharing your experience! But I have one question, I'd be glad to get some clarification. > I'm pretty sure once you're L4 or so you can pretty much coast. I heard a similar thing when I was at Google, but knew of many counter examples within my circle of coworkers. Do you mean that there are employees who were below L4 and have not been promoted in the past two years? Or do you mean that you know employees, who are L4, but haven't promoted to L5 in the past two years? In general, it seems (judging from HN comments) like L4 is the minimum growth expectation.